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Point of View


Written by Isaac Asimov


Published in 1975


A short story in Asimov's Robots series.


A title in the Multivac sequence of stories


Set in the Foundation universe

Cover Notes

Roger's father works with a supercomputer called a Multivac, which has been malfunctioning lately as it comes up with different solutions each time to problems it is asked to solve. After coworkers tell him to take a break, he takes Roger out to lunch. His father tells him what he thinks is wrong with the Multivac, and then from this Roger decides that it is like a child, and like one needs a break from work, saying that if you made a kid do work all day than it would get stuff wrong on purpose. His father reassure this inference with Roger, who confirms it saying, "Dad, a kid's got to play too."

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Classic SF by David Cooke is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License